APRIL 2012 In this issue... Featured Members John & Christina Ortiz ...

Auto-X Corner:
2012 Auto-X Season Kicks Off
with a Double Header!
Story by Steve Eguina - Auto-X Team Emeritus
Photos by Jon Perino • Studio Z Ad/Design
RacingLifestyle is the event sponsor along with Fairview
Mortgage Capital
AHH YES!... Finally it is Saturday
February 18, 2012. The long cold
Southern California winter, that kept us in
our garages from mid December to mid
February, is finally over and we can look
forward to the start of the Orange Coast
Region driving events. The start of each
new season offers OCR members the
opportunity to participate in the annual
OCR Drivers Clinic at El Toro Fields.
This is a great event for young and old
Porsche owners alike… and young and
old porsches! The event is well planned
and is the result of a lot of hard work
by OCR’s Chief Driving instructors
Richard & Dennis Neff and is supported
by their highly trained staff and cadre
of instructors. The event planning and
instructor training day was held earlier
in the year with excellent attendance for
new and returning OCR instructors.
The Drivers Clinic is a great starting
point for anyone to learn better car control
and to have fun with their Porsche.
Students were provided an instructor
for the day. During the morning session
drivers are challenged by various car
control exercises and a wet skid pad,
which allows them to learn the limits of
their cars traction. This was followed by
the “traditional” pizza lunch, (just like
at the Ferrari club meetings) seems like
lunch should have been bratwurst and
Chief Driving instructor Dennis Neff
sauerkraut. After lunch,
a mini-Auto-X course
was set up for students
to practice their newly
learned skills. This is more
fun than you can imagine
and everyone is given the opportunity to
practice these driving skills as they work
the course.
A great time was had by all and
many of the students returned the next
day to participate
in the first event of
the 2012 Walter’s
Porsche Auto-X
C h a m p i o n s h i p
Series. You are
invited to come out
to any event play
with your Porsche.
We will provide you
with a loaner helmet
and a friendly
instructor. See
the 2012 schedule
elsewhere in this
issue. Please don’t wait till next year to
come have fun with your Porsche!
Kicking off the Walter’s Porsche Auto-
X Championship Series.
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! We are
here LIVE at El Toro Fields to bring you
the first 2012 Walter Porsche OCR Auto-
X Championship Event! With Porsche
engines warming up in the background,
(Vroom – Vroom) the air was electric as
the announcers voice echoed across the
massive El Toro runways.
We are fortunate to have Walter’s
Porsche again this year as our Series
Sponsor, GMG-Global Motorsport
Group as our Series Support Sponsor
and for this event Fairview Mortgage
Capital and RacingLifestyle.com as
our event sponsors. When you need any
of our sponsors services, please give
them a call. They are all PCA members
and will look out for your well-being and
provide excellent service.
Christine Newcomer, the 2012 Auto-X C0-Chair, works the turn
Beginning at 6:30 am, tech
inspections and driver registration are
followed by my favorite, coffee and
donuts! Then at 8;20 sharp, Chuck
Bartolon and Christine Newcomer,
the 2012 Auto-X Chairs, call for the
drivers meeting. This is followed by
the newer drivers (who have requested
an instructor) being matched up with
instructors and then at 9:00 the first car
leaves the starting line. The Auto-X team
is to be commended for having made this
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